Dave Thomer

@davethomer.bsky.social

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I teach kids about history and I hang out with my family. Still brainstorming on the profile pic and header. He/him

Screenshot of Instagram repost of Twitter post by Cookie Monster: Me really excited to see me old friend Kermit. It’s been a while. Blue heart emoji, frog emoji
A fake front page that covered an edition of USA Today - the 4 page section is an ad for a Call of Duty game. I don’t know the games so I don’t know what blindfolds on the Mount Rushmore presidents has to do with anything.
A photo of a tweet that shows a photo of a Seis Leches Cake from the New York Times with the comment “SEIS leches? en esta economia?”
Cover of Flash 50 from 1991. Flash (Wally West) is wearing a slightly revised version of the Flash costume, with the yellow lightning bolts around his waist forming a V. Cover text: Welcome to a NEW Era! The Flash is DEAD?! Long live The FLASH!! Cover credits: by Messner-Loebs, LaRocque & Marzan.
A screenshot from my Apple Music page recommending the "Crowded House & Similar Artists" Station. The artists identified as similar to Crowded House (Neil Finn's current band) are Neil Finn and Split Enz (Neil Finn's previous band). Neil Finn is featured prominently in all three images. Guess there wasn't room for Fleetwood Mac.
Cover of Batman 433 - an empty Batman cowl is pinned to a wall with a knife.
Text piece from Dark Empire #1. Key passage: “The now-infamous Grand Admiral Thrawn, last of the Emperor’s powerful warlords, mounted a deft assault on the fledgling Republic. Others followed his lead - and production of war technologies expanded rapidly on all the Imperial worlds. The Alliance very quickly found itself on the defensive, as the Imperials gradually regained strength, pushing back the Alliance until the majority of worlds - including the vital Imperial system - fell once again under Imperial control. For a time it looked as if a New Empire was about the emergence of from the ashes of the old …”
LeVar Burton pointing at me at the Keystone Comic Con in 2019
An index card upon which I intended to write “First Aid Kit” with a Sharpie, but instead wrote “First Aid Kid.”
Front pages of the May 2 1994 and September 9 2024 editions of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The 1994 edition is on larger paper and has six stories on the front page. The 2024 edition is smaller and has only three stories.
Nightwing Sketch by George Pérez
What looks like the front page of USA Today with a headline and photo of “Mount Rushmore De-Faced.” The fonts are not the same as those usually used by the paper.
4K disc for The Marvels with artwork that depicts eight aliens that look like house cats against a space backdrop.
Cover of Adventures of Superman 450 - Cover date Jan 1989 - Superman flies away from a wrecked Metropolis as he prepares to begin his exile in space - Cover pencils by Jerry Ordway
Photo of the carboard longbox for R.E.M.'s Out of Time CD, which included a postcard so that the buyer could express support for the Motor Voter Act to their senator, through a Rock the Vote campaign.
James Gunn post on Instagram: “Calling Maxwell Lord a villain seems reductionist. As he was originally portrayed in JLI made him one of my favorite characters.”
Drawing of Blue Beetle and Booster Gold laughing with Bwa-ha-ha lettering repeated in the background. Art by Kevin Maguire.